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Which box do I check?

What happens when someone spends their whole life checking that box for β€œother”?

We’re constantly checking boxes on forms, whether it’s for eye color or sexual orientation. Those categories can be empowering or, they can make you feel invisible, like when Mona painted a portrait of 100 New Yorkers based on the New York Census data, and realized she couldn’t see herself. There was no β€œArabic” box to check in the censusβ€”the closest being β€œwhite” or β€œother.” So what happens when someone spends their whole life checking that box for β€œother”?Β Mona talks with nonbinary British Iraqi drag queen Amrou Al-Kadhi about embracing the contradictions of having multiple, wonderful, identities, that SOME people see as conflicting.

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23 minutes